Strategy as Practice

An Activity Based Approach
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7619-4438-6
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: SAGE Strategy series

`An important and extremely welcome addition to the strategic management field. In this book the author builds on the work of an emerging community of scholars to lay out theoretical and methodological underpinnings of an activity-based framework for applying the practice lens to strategy' - Academy of Management Review `Paula Jarzabkowski has astutely signaled an agenda for future scholarship that will no doubt fuel the continued growth of this subfield' - Organization Studies `Pioneering work. As the first book in the new strategy-as-practice field, it offers readers both innovative models and exemplary field research' - Richard Whittington, Professor of Strategic Management, Said Business School, Oxford 'Extends and develops the emerging fields of strategy and practice as well as activity theory. It also demonstrates empirically, using University settings, how activity theory is itself bounded by the wider contexts of organisation, embedded routines and the heavy hand of history' - David C. Wilson, University of Warwick `An insightful book that would be of use to people interested in the actual practices of strategy and strategizing' - Organization Bridging the gap between what managers actually do and organizational strategies, this book provides an activity-based framework for studying strategy as practice, with empirical evidence to illustrate the dynamics of this framework in real terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarzabkowski, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Vertrieb

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Strategy as Practice: A New Perspective
DEFINING AND THEORETICALLY LOCATING AN ACTIVITY-BASED VIEW
Core Social Theory Themes in Strategy as Practice
Locating Activity in the Strategy Literature
SHAPING STRATEGIC ACTIVITY IN PRACTICE
Establishing the Research Context
Implications of Procedural and Interactive Strategizing
Shaping Strategy and the Strategizing Matrix
Multiple Strategies Shape Each Other
THEORIZING AN ACTIVITY-BASED VIEW OF STRATEGY AS PRACTICE
Developing a Strategizing Framework
Taking the Research Agenda Forward